Quiz #4 HIS 144/18 Questions
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The "putting-out" system of production referred to - -the system whereby
manufacturers would pay a family to perform one task in producing an item.
-The middle class - -emerged with the factory system, and the creation of
managers and supervisors.
-The Grange was - -a national farm movement that sought political solutions
to farmers' economic problems.
-All of the following are true about the Cumberland Road, except - -The road
was widely considered sufficient for the region's commercial infrastructure
needs.
-By the 1850s, the cornerstone of America's transportation system was - -
railroads.
-Which of the following happened during the Market Revolution? - -A
growing number of farmers began to focus on single crops that they could
sell for profit, rather than only growing what they needed to be self-
sufficient.
-The key development in the communications revolution was the - -
telegraph.
-All of the following are true about 19th century railroads, except - -
Railroads crisscrossed the South far more densely than in the North.
-Among the American Federation of Labor's successes were all of the
following except - -The AFL achieved all of these successes.
-Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to
move westward and - -build railroads connecting the East and West.
-Who of the following did not support the economic plan called the American
System? - -Southern cotton plantation owners
-Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city
sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities. - -
typhoid
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